From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: building NTEmacs Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 11:22:16 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030221161252.73A2.LEKTU@terra.es> <20030221172352.73A8.LEKTU@terra.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046882085 22500 80.91.224.249 (5 Mar 2003 16:34:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 05 17:34:39 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18qbqp-0005qW-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 17:34:39 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18qcAj-0007na-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 17:55:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qbkO-0004h5-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 11:28:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qbjo-0004dx-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 11:27:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qbhI-0003nL-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 11:24:49 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qbf1-0002oE-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 11:22:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18qbeW-0004qr-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 17:21:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18qbeV-0004qb-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 17:21:55 +0100 Original-Lines: 60 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+snDtOkVTN946jELp8mXFThcIfc= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12105 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12105 Juanma Barranquero writes: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:57:09 -0500, David Abrahams wrote: > >> Hum. That doesn't sound like "with good results" to me! > > Ha, you're right; I was talking from the point of view of developing > Emacs, not working with it. Moreover, the crashes happen only on > optimized builds, so is not *that* unstable :) > >> I need my emacs to work; I think I'd better stay away from that until >> it's official, thanks. > > If you need a stable Emacs, you'd be better served using 21.2, or > perhaps the EMACS_21_1_RC branch (soon-to-be 21.3). With that branch I am getting: ... Loading loadup (source)... Using load-path (../lisp) Loading byte-run (source)... Loading subr (source)... Loading version.el (source)... Loading widget (source)... Loading custom (source)... Loading emacs-lisp/backquote (source)... Loading map-ynp (source)... Loading env (source)... Loading cus-start (source)... Loading international/mule (source)... Loading international/mule-conf.el (source)... Loading format (source)... Loading bindings (source)... Loading simple (source)... Loading files (source)... Lists of integers (garbage collection statistics) are normal output while building Emacs; they do not indicate a problem. ((7071 . 10004) (3801 . 0) (515 . 24) 26708 21356 (3 . 0) (16 . 0) (687 . 1518)) Loading loaddefs.el (source)... ((18259 . 15151) (5719 . 0) (524 . 15) 43842 21356 (5 . 0) (16 . 0) (2563 . 2036)) Loading help (source)... Cannot open load file: easy-mmode NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\src\emacs\src/obj-spd/i386/temacs.exe"' : return code '0xffffffff' Stop. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~4\VC98\BIN\NMAKE.EXE' : return code '0x2' Stop. > The HEAD has other unstabilities; I've had it crash while trying to > access a remote file with Tramp and ssh, and lately I've seen a couple > of non-easily repeatable redisplay bugs. Yeah, I've been getting daily crashes with the HEAD. But now I'm addicted to the bold/italic Lucida console font, and if I can't back up to the 21.3 branch I don't know what I'll do ;-) -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com